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Food Importation: Man Warns FG Against Invading CBN’s Autonomy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 26, 2019
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN said it has not understood the importance of President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on restriction of foreign exchange to food importation into the country.
According to the Association, the directive if examine, revealed that it is broad and would have to be both specific, targeted and there should also be strategic implementation to achieve the purpose intended by government.
The MAN’s Director General, Segun Ajayi-Kadir in a position paper, stated that in the case of input for  process, there is need to know the local capacity available compared to national demand and if not adequate, creditably determine what time and resources are needed to ramp up volume and production.
Ajayi-Kadiri pointed out the needed support that would sustain the stable progress in agricultural production and attainment of full food security, would have to be considered adding that on the matter at hand, what is needed is clarity.


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Food Insecurity: Agricultural Organisations List Nigeria Among 20 Famine Hotspots - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 28, 2022
The report which was released by the FAO and WFP issued an early
warning for serious humanitarian action in what they described as 20
“hunger hotspots” where part of the population is likely to face decline
of severe food insecurity in the coming months that will put their lives
and livelihoods at risk.
It added that Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remained at the
highest alert level from the previous edition of its report. Other countries
listed were Mozambique, Syria, Myanmar, Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Madagascar, Afghanistan and
Angola, among others.
According to the report, in their last available assessments, these
countries all had parts of populations identified or projected to
experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, Integrated Food Security
Phase Classification [IPC] Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.

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Food Insecurity: Agricultural Organisations List Nigeria Among 20 Famine Hotspots - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 28, 2022
The report which was released by the FAO and WFP issued an early warning for serious humanitarian action in what they described as 20 “hunger hotspots” where part of the population is likely to face decline of severe food insecurity in the coming months that will put their lives and livelihoods at risk
It added that Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remained at the highest alert level from the previous edition of its report. Other countries listed were Mozambique, Syria, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Madagascar, Afghanistan and Angola, among others.
According to the report, in their last available assessments, these countries all had parts of populations identified or projected to experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification [IPC] Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.

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Food: Nigeria, 40 Other Countries Need External Assistance — FAO - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 21, 2019
TheFood and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has said that Nigeriaand 40 other nations across the world are in need of external food assistance.
FAOsaid this in its latest quarterly report, titled Crop Prospects and FoodSituation.
Thecountries on the list, which include 31 in Africa, remained unchanged over thelast six months.
The41 countries currently in need of external food assistance are: Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central AfricanRepublic, Chad, Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DemocraticRepublic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Iraq,Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia,South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen andZimbabwe.
Itwould be recalled that the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele had onThursday told Nigerian governors that the nation spends about $1.2bn to importfish annually.

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Food Poisoning: 14 Persons Die In Zamfara Village - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 30, 2019
About fourteen persons in ModaVillage in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State have died of foodpoisoning.
Residents said that a housewife whomistook an ingredient for heyna design popularly known as “Gishirin lalle”, asa food seasoning added it to the stew she was cooking for dinner, thinking itwas the seasoning known as Ajino moto.
Anka local government official whopleaded anonymity said    those who ate the meal died. Heexplained that eight of them died in a hospital in Sokoto state while theremaining six died at home.
The Zamfara State Police commandspokesman Muhammad Shehu, who confirmed the incident gave the number of thedeath as eight saying investigation into the matter has commenced.

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Food Poisoning: Federal Government Advocates Personal Hygiene - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 14, 2019
The Federal Government has advised Nigerians to maintain adequate personal hygiene at all times to avoid food poisoning.
The Chairman, National Food Safety Management Committee, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Fubara Chuku, gave the advice during a sensitisation visit to food handlers at Karu abattoir near Abuja.
Chuku stressed the need to wash the hands regularly especially after playing with animals, using the bathroom, touching a cut or open sore, sneezing, blowing of nose and coughing.
He said there were some food toxins that could not be killed by just cooking the food, so Nigerians must be extremely careful of what they eat.
Also the Country Officer, Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa, PACA Stella Denloye said that long term chronic exposure to aflatoxin consumption could result in liver cancer, immune suppression and stunting in children. She described aflatoxin as a natural poison produced when certain mold species grow in foods.

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Food Price Hike: FG To Sanction Trade Associations. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 20, 2023
Chief Executive Officer of the FCCPC, Babatunde Irukera, said this during a forum organised by the commission to discuss fair food prices.
He said, the commission will monitor the market, and prices that are excessive or find exploitative conduct, or find that consumers are being taken advantage of will intervene by unlocking the bottlenecks.
According to Irukera, some trade unions had constituted cartels to engage in anti-competitive practices that have led to price gouging of basic food items.
He noted that taking a hard line against indiscriminate food price hikes had become imperative in light of the president’s declaration of food security as a national emergency last week.
Irukera said, “Competition regulation and consumer protection is not only to regulate the big companies. It is not only to regulate the formal sector. It is also to regulate the informal sector.
In a place like Nigeria, it is even more critical to find a strategy to regulate the informal sector because, at the end of the day the vast majority of our economy is informal.


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Food Prices: Tinubu Directs Immediate Release Of Grains - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2024
Similarly, the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria has also committed to immediately release over 60,000 metric tonnes of rice to the public.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said this after the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Emergency Food Intervention in Abuja.
He said that these were immediate measures taken by the Federal Government to reduce the hardships faced by Nigerians who are made to bear the brunt of high prices of food in the market.
Idris also added that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security would further invest massively in the farming process to boost production and ensure the country’s food potential are fully exploited.
He noted that government would appeal to persons or groups to stop hoarding these products in order to maximise profit at the detriment of ordinary Nigerians.

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Food Production: Farmers Urge FG To Provide Security, Mechanisation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 24, 2023
President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Kabir Ibrahim, who made the plea in Abuja, said farmers needed some level of mechanisation.
He stressed that insecurity prevented farmers from going to the farm, adding that farmers needed a sense of security alongside other requirements to enable them put in more work at the farms.
Kabir also advised that what technology incubation centres across the country were able to produce should be boosted to facilitate indigenous technologies which could be applied in agriculture.
The AFAN’s President said various farm tools and implements for tractors could be manufactured in the country via the technology incubation centres.
He also pointed out that instead of waiting to import parts of broken-down tractor; Nigeria should support and encourage local manufacturers.


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Food Safety: NAFDAC Recommends Best Practices For Manufacturers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
June 14, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has advised food manufacturers to adhere to recommended industry standards to ensure food safety.
The Director-General of the Agency, Mojisola Adeyeye gave the advice while delivering a paper at the 10th Edition of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Apapa Branch, ‘Environmental and Safety Seminar’ in Lagos. The Director General spoke on “Environmental and Food Safety: Any Silver Lining for Public Health Living?
Adeyeye, represented by Assistant Director, Food Safety, NAFDAC, Anthony Abah, noted that most problems with food quality was due to contamination.
According to Adeyeye, abuse of plastic, fossil fuels, industrial and agrochemicals are responsible for food contamination, health issues and death. She cautioned against cross contamination of food during supply and storage.


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Food Safety: Scientist Alert Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
September 5, 2019
Afood scientist, Vera Eze, has advised Nigerians to always ensure consumption ofsafe foods to avoid sicknesses and diseases that could lead to death.
Eze,who is the Chairperson of the Abuja chapter of Nigerian Institute of FoodScience and Technology , gave the advice while speaking in Abuja.
Sheobserved that some of the foods consumed by Nigerians had the tendency to killoutrightly.
Sheexpressed the need for government to create silos and collection centres forfarmers for effective regulation and distribution of foods in the country.
Ezeadvised Nigerians to buy unripe fruits and allow them ripen naturally becausemost fruits in the markets were ripened with dangerous chemicals.
Sheadvised those who needed to ripen their fruits artificially to use ethylene gaswhich, she said, was safe for consumption.

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Food Security: Agric Minister Excited As Strategic Grains Reserve Improves - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 1, 2020
TheMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sabo Nanono has expressed contentmentwith improvement in the country’s strategic grains reserve.
Nanonomade this known while on an inspection tour of one of the country’s grainsreserves in Zamfara State. He said the improvement was achieved throughinterventions from the Federal Government to mop up excess grains from themarket.
Accordingto the Minister, the mop up has been able to stabilise prices and preventedfarmers from incurring debt due to glut. He gave assurance that the FederalGovernment would embark on more interventions to ensure adequate food toNigerians and other neighbouring countries.
Nanonoalso noted that ensuring food security was important to Nigeria in view of thefact that it was not only feeding itself but neighbouring countries.
Earlier,the Director of Food and Strategic Reserve, Ministry of Agriculture, SuleHaruna said the reserve in Zamfara state is automated to ensure transparencyand accountability.

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Food Security: Agriculture Critical For Food Production, Economic Development – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 23, 2021
Abubakar said this during the foundation-laying ceremony of the administrative block and inauguration of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria ARCN Communication Center E-Library, Radio and Television stations in Abuja.
He said research occupies a special place in the heart of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that the ministry’s priority is to reposition the Agricultural Research system for greater productivity.
The minister said it was to this end that President Buhari recently accented to the ARCN Amendment Biil, 2021.
He said that the Act would go a long way in addressing the many challenges facing research in the country.

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Food Security: Association Creates Maize Pyramid As Loan Repayment To CBN’S ABP - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2022
MAAN National President Abubakar Bello, who made known, explaining that the maize showcased was sourced from across the country, and also is the second maize pyramid erected by maize farmers since the commencement of the programme in 2015.
He added that the pyramid was part of the success story of CBN’s Anchor Borrower Programme and to showcase maize famrers’ resilience and commitment to food security and nutrition in Nigeria.
Bello however said reasons behind the high cost of maize, is traceable to Covid-19 pandemic being a major contributory factor as companies producing inputs could not produce due to lockdown restrictions.
On his part, Kaduna State Commissioner of Agriculture Ibrahim Hussaini noted that the pyramid is symbolic and will go a long way in convincing Nigerians that CBN programme and the association are ensuring that Nigeria achieves self-sufficiency in food production.

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Food Security: Bayelsa Govt. Approves Farming Days For Civil Servants. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 25, 2024
This is according to a circular signed by the Bayelsa State Head of Service Biobelemoye Charles-Onyeama.
However, the development that followed Governor Doiye Diri’s approval only affects civil servants from Grade level 14 and below.
He directed that the remaining two working days should be used for farming to promote food security in the state.
Teachers, medical personnel, and other staff on essential services are excluded from the directive.
The directive is expected to become effective from the 29th of April, 2024 also highlighted that it will be for six months.


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Food Security: Donors Pledge $17m To End Rural Poverty In Africa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 13, 2019
African and non-regional donors have pledged seventeen million dollars to replenish the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund, an initiative that aims to provide food security and eliminate rural poverty in the region.
The pledges were made at a donor round-table convened by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO and Equatorial Guinea President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on the sidelines of the African Development Bank’s 2019 Annual Meetings underway in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Opening the conference in the Equatorial Guinea, President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said the fund illustrated a turning point in the fight against food insecurity, adding that his tiny oil-rich nation had donated generously out of its oil revenues to show solidarity to African countries.
The fund is an initiative of the FAO, received its start-up contribution of thirty million dollars from Equatorial Guinea, the host nation of this year’s meetings and Angola, which gave ten million dollars.
Speaking, the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said Africa faced challenges in the area of agriculture and food production, relying heavily on food imports.


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Food Security: ECOWAS To Implement Bio-Safety Regulations - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2019
Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS is to implement bio-safety regulations aimed at ensuring safe practices in the agriculture sector in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of achieving Zero Hunger by 2030.
This formed the basis of the meeting of Experts of Bio-safety for the Validation of the Preliminary Draft Regulations on Biosafety in West Africa held in Abuja.
The meeting aimed to review draft regulations on the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture in the region.
In his address, Minister of Environment, Suleiman Zarma said that Nigeria recognised the need for a regional biosafety system.
Also speaking, ECOWAS Commissioner, Agriculture and Water Resources Sékou Sangare said the implementation would improve institutional, technical and human capacities in member states.


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Food Security: Federal Government Disburses N300bn To Farmers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 15, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari announced this while virtually declaring open the 14th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria in Abuja.
He noted that some of the initiatives embarked upon to boost agricultural trade in the country include the Anchor Borrowers Programme.
Buhari also explained that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN had made more than 300 billion naira available to over 3.1 million smallholder farmers of 21 different commodities.
The President said the commodities included Rice, Wheat, Maize, Cotton, Cassava, Poultry, Soybeans, Groundnut, Fish, cultivating over 3.8 million hectares of farmland.
He however, added that the National Social Register of poor and vulnerable Nigerians had 32.6 million persons from seven million poor and vulnerable households identified, imploring bankers to play a stronger role in improving livelihoods.

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Food Security: Federal Government Launches N46.83BN Agric. Scheme In 9 Oil Producing States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 11, 2019
The Federal Government has launched one-hundred-and-twenty-nine-point-one-seven million U.S. dollars about forty-six-point-eight-three billion naira agric scheme to enhance food security and income generation in the country.
Minister of Agricultureand Rural Development, Alh. Sabo Nanono, said this at the formal launch in PortHarcourt that the scheme would take off in nine oil producing states.
The states are Abia, AkwaIbom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.
The Minister, who wasrepresented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agricultureand Rural Development, Mohammed Umar, said the scheme, Livelihood ImprovementFamily Enterprises was, in collaboration with the International Fund forAgricultural Development, IFAD.
Speaking, ActingManaging Director, NDDC, Joi Nunieh, said the scheme would transform theeconomy of the Niger Delta. He added that the Commission would provide 30million U.S. dollars about 10.89 ten-point-eight-nine billion naira, as part ofits counterpart fund for the project.

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Food Security: Federal Government To Develop Agro-Industrial Processing Zones - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 24, 2020
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development incollaboration with African Development Bank, AfDB would promote and developSpecial Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, SAPZs in the country.
The Minister of State, Mustapha Baba Shehuri said thecollaboration is aimed at enabling both local and foreign partners to advancethe level of trade and investments in the agricultural sector as a veritablestrategy to diversify the economy.
He made this known during the Ecobank Agribusiness Summitwith the theme, “Unlocking Productivity and Investment Opportunities acrossNigeria’s Agribusiness Value Chain”.
Shehuri noted the need for a sustainable synergy andcollaboration of all the relevant stakeholders including the financial sectoras well as governments at various levels and the development partners.
He said within the overall set of policy principles, theFederal Government is concentrating on providing an enabling environment and alevel playground for stakeholders at all levels to enhance investment andcapital flow into the agric sector.

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Food Security: Federal Government To Prioritise Agricultural Research - Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 16, 2021
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammed Abubakar stated this at a working visit to the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, ARCN in Abuja.
He also noted that research was very key to development, saying to have a meaningful agriculture, there must be researches and innovations.
Abubakar assured the Research Council of his support and cooperation saying that Nigeria needed a strong base to ensure food security.
The Minister also stressed that agriculture can make a difference, it is your responsibility to research, develop, make innovations to make Nigeria self-sufficient to be able to export anything we want through innovative researches, and ARCN and Agriculture will make that difference.
Abubakar, while commenting on prices of food stuffs, the minister said that the Government was doing everything possible to bring the prices of food stuffs down by collaborating with international organisations to boost agriculture.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), Garba Sharubutu, assured of the Council’s support to the minister and the diversification agenda of President Buhari which is aimed at achieving  nutrition and food security, reducing poverty rate and improving the Agribusiness in the Agric sector.

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Food Security: Federal Government Unveils Plans For Agricultural Sector Against 2022 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 17, 2021
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammed Abubakar stated this at the launch of a Rural Rubber Resources Centre at Ndioko Izombe and a 1,000 capacity poultry at Umuelem and Umuokoro Umuihi in the Oguta and Ihitte Uboma council areas of Imo state.
He added that plans were on ground for enhanced provision of agricultural incentives and maintenance of existing agricultural institutions across the six geo-political zones of the country.
Abubakar also explained that the measure became necessary to stimulate for the realization of food security and intercontinental food production.
Abubakar, represented by a Director in the Imo Ministry of Agriculture, also said that Government had resolved to empower women and youths through poultry farming to promote economic self-reliance.
The Minister also identified rubber as an essential raw material used in the manufacture of more than 40,000 products, including medical devices, surgical gloves, air craft and car tyres as well as pacifiers, clothes and toys.
Speaking, Chairman of Izombe Rubber farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society Donatus Emedoro expressed gratitude to Abubakar for the establishment of the centre in the state and four others out of the 18 rubber producing states in the country.

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Food Security: FG Plans To Institutionalise Agricultural Regional Forum - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 24, 2019
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Umar says plans are underway toinstitutionalise Agricultural Regional Forum in Nigeria to fast-track theattainment of food security and self-sufficiency.
Umar said this in Umuahia, Abia state during theopening of the 43rd National Council on Agriculture, with the theme,“Consolidating the strategies of the Agricultural Promotion Policy for EconomicDiversification and Growth.”
The Permanent Secretary said that it was necessaryto start implementing programmes that could facilitate the establishment of theforum in different geo-political zones. He said that the technical reports fromthe forum would form the memoranda of the National Council of Agriculture.
In his address, Abia Commissioner for Agriculture,Chinedum Elechi, said that the event would provide opportunity for extensivedeliberation by stakeholders in the agricultural sector. He described themeeting as timely, adding that the recommendations of the council wouldfacilitate the formulation and implementation of sustainable agriculturalprogrammes and policies.


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Food Security: FG Reiterates Commitment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 24, 2019
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, SaboNanono, has said on Monday that the federal government was committed toensuring food security and continuous support on storage to reduce harvestlosses.
Nanono said this at the opening of 2019 AgriculturalTechnical Training organised by Green Agriculture West Africa Limited andsponsored by the Chinese Embassy in Abuja.
Nanono, who was represented by Director,Agriculture, Processing and Marketing in the Ministry, Muyi Azeez, said thatthe training would improve the productivity in the sector.
He said that Green Agriculture and Chinese Embassyhad made the training a ritual for several years for capacity building and thatall the participants had been gaining a lot.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and NationalPlanning, Ernest Umakhihe, who was represented by Oluseyi Fatuyi, DeputyDirector, International Cooperation of the ministry, commended the Chinesegovernment and CGC for organising the training.
He used the event to debunk reports that VicePresident Yem Osinbajo flouted due process in supervision of agencies,describing them as false and misleading.

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Food Security: Foundation Targets To Feed 4 Million Nigerian - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 01
September 11, 2020
A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO “When In Need Foundation” in Kaduna, Abuja, Imo State and other communities has engaged four million Nigerians in a sustainable food security program as Africa gets compounded by the imposed lockdowns resulting from the ravaging COVID-19.
The Foundation’s President Chetachi Ecton donated agricultural seeds inputs from organizations and people of goodwill in the United States that will grow stable food to feed millions spread across different communities in the country. She also noted that the mission is to rewrite the hunger narrative by engaging millions of people in food security programs.
Ecton however, argues that while she respects the global awareness that the developed world and the international community have given to the people affected by the deadly virus, little attention is paid to millions of people that die of hunger every day in Africa and Nigeria is no exception.
She however, appealed to the local governments in Nigeria and governments from the developed world and the international community to pay undiluted attention to hunger as a pandemic that has never been declared as a global state of emergency.
Ecton also recalled that in 2018, the United Nations World Food Programme, WFP gave a significant contribution of about 100 million dollars from the United States which guaranteed continued life-saving food assistance in northeast Nigeria through early 2018.

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Food security: gov. Bagudu lauds waccot rice for supporting fg’s drive - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
December 29, 2020
The governor said this on the heels a $10.5 million (about N4.99 billion) co-investment partnership which WACOT Rice Limited signed with the USAID-funded West Africa Trade and Investment Hub (WATIH).
The company, which has an Outgrower Expansion Project in Argungu, Kebbi State, aspires to be West Africa’s leading rice producer. Through the new partnership, WACOT Rice will register an additional 5,143 farmers to complement its already existing outgrower network in the state. OTher new farmers are expected to cultivate over 5,000 additional hectares of land thereby producing over 20,000 tons of paddy, which will be utilised at the company’s 120,000-ton rice mill.

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Food Security: Institution Urges Buhari To Sign Nigeria Food Science Charter Into Law - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
August 12, 2019
The Nigerian Institute of FoodScience and Technology, NIFST has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari tosign into law Nigeria Food Science charter bill to regulate the practice of foodprofessionals in the country.
According to the President andChairman of Council of the Institute Oluwole Toye the bill has passed the threereadings at the National Assembly.
Toye, who stated this at the 10biennial JK Ladipo Memorial lecture, in Lagos, said when signed into law, thiswill go a long way to empower the institute to achieve its mission to harnessthe abundance of talents and knowledge amongst food professionals in Nigeriatowards food sufficiency and good nutrition of the masses.
He stated that the institution as abody would continue to partner with the various stakeholders across the valuechain to actualize the vision of good and abundant food for all through serviceto humanity and country resulting in food security and the well-being onNigerians.


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Food Security: Minister Laments 60% Of Farm Produce Lost To Inadequate Storage Facilities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 17, 2021
Agba stressed the need for government at all levels to focus more on the
production of storage and processing facilities in the rural areas to
eliminate post-harvest losses.
The Minister who was speaking at the 7th Biennial Retreat of Weppa
Wanno Pyramid Club of Nigeria with the theme: ‘Security Challenges in
our Communities: the Way Forward,’ in Edo State, noted that Nigeria
must not compare itself with America, which, is racing to space because
they have conquered hunger.
He also pointed out advantages various regions of the country have as
regards food and its production, stressing that this could be utilized by
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Food Security: Minister Launches Gender Policy On Agriculture To Tackle Gender Imbalance - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
November 1, 2019
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, SaboNanono has launched the Gender Policy on Agriculture, to tackle genderimbalance in agricultural practices in Nigeria.
The Minister, while delivering his remarks at the launch inAbuja said the occasion signaled a giant stride and commitment of the ministrytoward mainstreaming gender in the agricultural sector for improved foodsecurity.
He said that the policy was consistent with the global 2030Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by World Leaders at the UN Summit inNew York in September 2015.
He said that the policy was consistent with the agenda,which underscored the vital role agriculture played in eradicating poverty,ending hunger, achieving food security, improved nutrition and sustainableagriculture, among others.
The Assistant Director and Head of Gender Unit in theMinistry of Agriculture,  Ifeoma Anyanwu said the launch was a milestonethat would enable all gender to have equal opportunity to agriculturalresources.

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Food Security: Minister Urges Nigerians To Embrace Biotechnology - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 17, 2019
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono says the administration of President Buhari is to create a functional input system with a high priority given to seeds.
The Minister made this known at the 2019 Seed Fair and Farmers’ Field Day, organised by the National Agricultural Seeds Council, NASC at the NASC headquarters inAbuja with the theme: “Making Quality Seeds Available, Accessible and Affordable to Nigerian Farmers”.
Read This: Rice: UNDP’S Intervention Will Boost Production In Nigeria
According to Nanono, it isindisputable that there is a strong correlation between Nigeria’s quest forself-sufficiency in food production and a robust agricultural input supplysystem.
He said that the recent signing intolaw of the Seed Act 2019 was a testimonial of the president’s resolve tostrengthen Nigeria’s seed system. Nanono added that in the face of climatechange, the world was transiting from breeding to biotechnology.
The Director General, NASC PhilipOjo, said the event was geared toward creating continuously, the necessaryawareness among farmers and farming communities on the need to adopt goodquality seeds.

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Food Security: Organisation Warns Of ‘Dramatic Humanitarian Crisis’ In Sahel Region - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 19, 2019
The World Food Programme, WFP said a “dramatichumanitarian crisis” is unfolding in the three Sahel countries of Burkina Faso,Mali and Niger, fuelled by conflict, displacements, hunger and poverty.
The Organisation’s Spokesman Herve Verhoosel warnedthat if action is  not taking  now to tackle hunger in the Sahel, a wholegeneration are at risk.
According to the organisation, about 20 millionpeople live in conflict-affected areas across the region, bearing the brunt ofthe unfolding crisis as hunger and malnutrition loom.
It added that more than 2.4 million people alreadyrequire urgent food and nutrition assistance in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigerrepublic.
The report says about 1.1 million people acrossNiger, Burkina Faso and Mali had fled their homes in search of safety,.
According to the statement, conflict is devastatingagriculture and rural economies, and almost one in three children is out ofschool in many conflict-affected areas,.

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Food Security: President Buhari Approves 109 Integrated Farms Nationwide - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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Executive Secretary of the Agency, Paul Ikonne, said the directive was part of the outcome of his meeting with Buhari in Abuja.
According to him, the President has inaugurated one of such integrated farms in Daura, Katsina, adding that the agency is poised to accomplish the remaining 109 farms, in line with the presidential directive.
He also, explained that the aim was to ensure that the giant strides already made in agriculture under the current administration were sustained and called on state governments to partner with NALDA to achieve the goal by donating land for the integrated farms in their respective domains.
Ikonne, however expressed the hope that the scheme would help the country generate more employment and attain food security. He also added that the president had directed NALDA to put up the integrated farm estates in the remaining 108 senatorial districts.

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Food Security: President Buhari Approves Establishment Of 109 Integrated Farms Nationwide - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 6, 2021
Executive Secretary of the Agency, Paul Ikonne, said the directive was part of the outcome of his meeting with Buhari in Abuja.
According to him, the President has inaugurated one of such integrated farms in Daura, Katsina, adding that the agency is poised to accomplish the remaining 109 farms, in line with the presidential directive.
He also, explained that the aim was to ensure that the giant strides already made in agriculture under the current administration were sustained and called on state governments to partner with NALDA to achieve the goal by donating land for the integrated farms in their respective domains.
Ikonne, however expressed the hope that the scheme would help the country generate more employment and attain food security. He also added that the president had directed NALDA to put up the integrated farm estates in the remaining 108 senatorial districts.


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FOOD Security: President Tinubu Seeks Partnership With Brazilian President - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 19, 2024
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made the move during a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement stated that both leaders had fruitful discussions on comprehensive strengthening of bilateral ties in many fields.
Tinubu, while speaking at the meeting emphasized the strength of Nigeria’s economic potential and influence, saying the country is witnessing a leap forward, despite some short-term reform pains, as his administration is removing all encumbrances to business.
He also explained that his administration is investing in critical sectors of the economy like healthcare, education, and agriculture to ensure the welfare of all Nigerian citizens and to create sustainable economic prosperity for future generations.

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Food Security: Stakeholders Chart Course For SCP To Boost Agric Production - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 24, 2021
Executive Secretary, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA Arigbabu Suleiman, stated this in Ilorin, Kwara state. Arigbabu was speaking at a day’s Agriculture Stakeholders’ Workshop on improving the provision of climate information services to farmers organised by HEDA and Oxfam in partnership with the NIMET.
He added that the importance of climate information services to farmers in the country could not be over-emphasized, and that climate change impacts on the food crises and poverty induced conflicts experienced in Nigeria.
The Executive Secretary explained that the annual Seasonal Climate Predictions, SCP and other forecasts from NIMET to the agriculture sector were parts of critical efforts to building the resilience of smallholder farmers in the nation.
Also, a representative of the Kwara Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammed Hassan said the state government was ready to bridge the communication gap among stakeholders.

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Food Security: United Nations Allocates $20million For Nigeria. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 22, 2023
UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq disclosed this at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York.
According to humanitarian partners, almost 700,000 children under five are likely to suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition this year in this region and more than half a million people may face emergency levels of food insecurity during the lean season from June to August.
Haq said that the emergency funding would help jumpstart the response, but humanitarian partners need more to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition.


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FOOD Security: We’ll BecomYe A Net Exporter Of FOOD – Tinubu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 12, 2024
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced this when he received a delegation from the Global Tijaniyya Movement, led by Khalifa Muhammad Mahe Niass, at the State House in Abuja.
He explained that the federal government is revolutionizing agriculture to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production and a net exporter of agricultural products.
The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement said the present will support plans and efforts to give ease and succour to Hajj pilgrims.
Tinubu also emphasized the importance of spiritual endeavours in nation-building, underscoring his administration’s commitment to supporting religious activities.
The Khalifa of Tijaniyya, Sheikh Mahe Niass, speaking on behalf of the delegation, commended Tinubu for his unwavering commitment to Nigeria’s peace, progress, and stability.

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Food Security: Women Farmers Seek Support For Agric Services - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 21, 2023
The coalition made the call at a press conference organised by Young Men’s Christian Association YMCA and Ogbonge Women group in Jos.
The conference was also in collaboration with Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria SWOFON, Association of Small Scale Agro Producers in Nigeria ASSAPIN and other women organisations.
The Leader of SWOFON in the state , Ruth Joseph, said that policies that support capacity building was crucial to ensure that women farmers were equipped with the required knowledge and skills to ensure food security.
She urged government to adopt such policies which would ensure access to the requisite information necessary for them to navigate climate change challenges, subscribe to new improved seedlings and other innovations.


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Food Shortage: Fifteen Million People In Sudan Facing Acute Hunger - WFP - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2022
The CFSVA, a food security assessment led by WFP, ascertains the food security situation among the resident population, assess risk factors that
contribute to food insecurity, and highlight vulnerable geographical areas.
The latest WFP assessment shows that food insecurity exists in all of Sudan’s 18 states, with ten most affected localities in Darfur, which have
been ravaged by nearly two decades of protracted conflict and displacement.
According to the world’s largest humanitarian agency, the assessment
projects that the already alarming food security situation is likely to
worsen throughout the lean season in Sudan, which started this month
and will last through September.
The conflict in Ukraine has reportedly worsened the situation, further driving up food and fuel prices in Sudan, which depends on food imports
with more than half of its wheat imports stemming from the Black Sea region.
Meanwhile, WFP and FAO called for urgent action, including increased funding, in order to save lives and prevent a looming hunger crisis in Sudan.


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Food Shortage: NFF Denies Leaving U-23 Team Olympic Eagles In Hunger - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 7, 2019
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has denied reports that the federation did not provide money for the feeding of the national Under-23 team during their 2019 AFCON first leg qualifier against Sudan in Omdurman.
Read This: Match Fixing: NFF To Help Siasia Clear His Name
NFF Spokesman, Ademola Olajire deniedthe rumour, saying there is no element of truth in the report that the Under-23team was left hungry.
The Nigerians, current AfricanUnder-23 champions, lost 1-0 to their hosts Sudan.
In the outcome of the Olympic Eagles’loss to the Sudanese, a tweet by a journalist, Osasu Obayiuwana, instigated astir amongst football fans across the country.

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Food System: AFDB Hosts Experts To Accelerate Transformation In West Africa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 26, 2019
The African Development Bank AFDB, has hosted a group of experts to discuss how technology can be deployed to transform food systems in West Africa.
The bank co-hosted the workshop with the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the African Green Revolution Alliance.
Others are World Economic Forum and Rabobank for the Food Systems Action Platform FSAP for West Africa.
The event, which took place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on June 20th and 21, centered on the relationship between climate resilience and nutrition and how to integrate those factors into food value chains, such as rice, cassava, fruits and vegetables in West Africa.
The Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development Jennifer Blanke, noted that Africa was lagging behind in terms of food value chains.
The representatives from multi-lateral organsations attended the two-day session, including delegates from food companies, African governments, research institutes, commodity exchanges, processor and producer organisations and financial institutions.


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Foot, Mouth Disease: Zimbabwe Suspends Importation Of Live Animals From S/Africa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 8, 2019
The Zimbabwe Government has suspended the importation oflive cloven hoofed animals and related products from South Africa withimmediate effect following an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.
The South African Veterinary Authorities had on November 1stsaid that there had been an outbreak of the disease on a farm in MolemoleDistrict of Limpopo Province.
The Veterinary Services Director, Josphat Nyika remindedmembers of the public and stakeholders of the ban of the importation of livecattle, goats, sheep and pigs from South Africa.
Nyika said South Africa was currently in the process ofidentifying the virus strain, extent of the outbreak and conducting backward andforward tracing to determine
This would also include the locations to which the diseasemight have spread.
This is the second time in 2019 that Zimbabwe has suspended importation of suchanimals from South Africa after another outbreak hit the same province in earlyJanuary.

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Football: Abdallah Says Local Coaches Good Enough To Handle Eagles - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 29, 2019
Enyimba International Football Club of Aba’s coach,Usman Abdallah, has expressed confidence in indigenous coaches, saying withproper motivation, they will produce better results than the foreign coachesthe country has always relied on to tinker the Super Eagles.
At the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations AFCON,which Algeria won by defeating Senegal 1-0; indigenous coaches coached the twofinalists.
Algeria had Djamel Belmadi and Senegal Aliou Cisse.French-German, Gernot Rohr, and French Alain Giresse coached Nigeria andTunisia that played in the losers final.
Speaking on the need to look inward for footballmanagers just like other countries in Africa are now doing, Abdallah said thereason the country’s football governing body has refused to give local managersopportunity is because of the sentiment that foreign managers will producebetter results.
The former junior international, who has a FranceUEFA B Licence Certificate, UEFA A Licence in England, done courses in CAF,coached in Asia and France.


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Football Activities: 2020/21 Epl Season Kick Off September 12 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 25, 2020
The 2020/21 Premier League season is expected to begin on September 12. The 20 top-flight clubs gathered for their final shareholders’ meeting, with the final round of games taking place today.
Premier League statement said League shareholders have decided to start the 2020-21 season on September 12, while the final match round of the campaign will take place on May 23, 2021.
However, the Premier League will continue to consult the FA and EFL regarding the scheduling of all domestic competitions.
The EFL have also confirmed that their season will begin at the same time as the Premier League.
An EFL statement added that work is currently underway in respect of fixture scheduling and details will be announced in due course as to when full fixture lists for 2020/21 will be made available.


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July 3, 2020
Head of Nigeria Women Football League, NWFL Aisha Falode says the decision of the Confederation of African Football, CAF to put the proposed Women’s CAF Champions League on the front burner in their next meeting in Cairo towards the actualisation of the league in 2021, is a dream come true for her.
Falode, who is also a board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF also stressed that, the success recorded by Nigeria’s Super Falcons which played with seven NWPL clubs’ players at the France 2019 Women’s World Cup, must have played a prominent role in the decision taken by CAF to uplift women’s football in the continent at the club level.
She explained that many people have advocated for it and desired it on the continent for the young women who continue to play good football all around Africa.

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Football: Eagles Move To Third As Lions, Scorpions Rise In FIFA Ranking - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 11, 2022
In fact, the Lions of Teranga have climbed to 18th in this edition of the
FIFA/Coca-Cola world ranking, their highest ever position.
Unsurprisingly, the Cup of Nations generated most of the movement
seen in the year’s first edition of the ranking.
Aside from Senegal, the highest ranked African nation in the standings,
Cameroun (38, + 12), who finished third at the African Cup, and
runners-up Egypt (34, + 11) have made the most significant moves
within the Top 50. Other notable movers were Canada (33, + 7) and
Costa Rica (42, + 7), on the back of stellar performances during their
Qatar 2022 qualifiers in the CONCACAF zone.
Nigeria rose from 36th position in December to 32 in the latest ranking.
However, the biggest jump of all this month was by Gambia (125, + 25),
the Scorpions ascending 25 places courtesy of their run to the
quarterfinals at the African Cup. Equatorial Guinea, who also reached
the last eight at the tournament, climb 15 places and are now in the Top
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Football: Eagles Set To Lose Eze To England. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 17, 2023
England face Malta and North Macedonia in a European Championship qualifier in June and Eze is back on Gareth Southgate’s radar, but faces competition from Nigeria to commit the forward’s international future.
Eze is eligible to play for Nigeria through his parents and the three-time African champions have tried severally to convince the 24-year-old to play for the Super Eagles, but the midfielder is yet to make a final decision.
The former Queen Park Rangers man has played a lead role in Palace’s excellent run under Roy Hodgson that has seen the club fight off the threat of relegation, scoring six goals in seven matches.
His performances for the Eagles have not gone unnoticed by Southgate, who believes Eze has the qualities of a full England international.
The FA already has extensive scouting reports on the former U-21 star and were ready to hand Eze his first senior call-up in 2021, but a serious Achilles injury dashed his hopes of being selected.


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Football: FIFA Approves Akpoguma Nigeria Switch - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 6, 2020
President, Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, announced this on his Twitter page Monday evening.
The NFF had earlier announced in the statement on Wednesday that the 25-year-old defender, who was not invited for the friendly matches against Algeria and Tunisia – had joined the Eagles camp in Austria to familiarise with the team set-up while awaiting FIFA clearance.
Akpoguma, who has a Nigerian father and a German mother, had in 2018 first signified his intention to play for the Eagles.
Eagles coach Gernot Rohr however told BBC in September that he had convinced the defender to play for Nigeria.

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Football: Messi Returns To PSG Training After Suspension. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 9, 2023
His return makes it likely he will feature in PSG’s home match with relegation-threatened Ajaccio next Saturday.
PSG hold the whip hand in defending their Ligue 1 title, a six-point lead over Lens with four matches remaining.
He was suspended by the Qatar-owned club after failing to turn up for training last Monday.
Instead, the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner travelled to Saudi Arabia without PSG’s permission to fulfil commitments as part of a contract with the country’s tourist office.
Messi subsequently apologised in a video posted on Instagram to his 458 million followers.
The affair has made it increasingly unlikely that Messi will remain at PSG beyond this season when his two-year contract with the club expires.


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Football: Neymar Back In Psg Squad For Marseille Game After Covid-19 Battle - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 13, 2020
Brazilian star Neymar is back in the Paris Saint-Germain squad for Sunday’s Ligue 1 match against arch-rivals Marseille after serving a Covid-19 quarantine, PSG coach Thomas Tuchel has confirmed.
Neymar tested positive for coronavirus on September 2, having contracted the virus holidaying in Ibiza following the 1-0 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in Lisbon last month.
The Brazilian, along with the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes, were all quarantined, with Neymar making his return to training on Friday.

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Football: Rohr Urges Minister To Resolve NFF, Ministry Conflict - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2019
\Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has called on the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, to resolve the conflict involving the sports ministry and the Nigerian Football Federation, which has affected the Eagles negatively.
Rohr, who has been in charge of the three-timechampions for three years, also hopes Dare will help provide good footballpitches across the country.
Rohr said what he wish for Nigerian football is toend the conflicts between the Nigeria Football Federation and the sportsministry.
He said when he was in Burkina Faso, the sportsminister attended the team’s matches and he was even paying the salaries of thecoaches, paying for trips and bonuses.

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Football: Salah’s Egypt Target Revenge In World Cup Play-Off After AFCON Defeat - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 7, 2022
The Pharaohs fell short of winning a record-extending eighth continental
crown as they went down 4-2 in the shoot-out in Yaounde after
Sunday’s final finished 0-0 at the end of extra time.
Mohamed Abdelmonem and Mohanad Lasheen both failed to convert
their penalties, meaning Salah did not get the chance to step up before
Sadio Mane converted the winning kick for Senegal to give them their
first-ever AFCON crown.
The 33-year-old, who carries his nickname Gabaski on the back of his
shirt, also saved from Bouna Sarr in the shoot-out but his efforts were
ultimate to no avail.
Salah appeared to be on the brink of tears even before Mane had
converted his penalty as he ended up on the losing side in a Cup of
Nations final for the second time in three editions after Egypt were also
beaten in the 2017 climax by Cameroon.

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Football Tournament: Eguavoen, Lawal Advocate For Better Fields Nationwide - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 20, 2021
The duo, who spoke on the sidelines of the competition, wants the stadium’s grass, which was constructed by Monimichelle Group, imitation across country.
The former Super Eagles Coach also applauded the organisers of the Aisha Buhari Cup, saying it was a good test for the Super Falcons.
Also, former international, Garba Lawal, said he would also like to see fields like the one at the remodeled Mobolaji Johnson Arena turf across Nigeria. He noted that the pitch is fantastic, superb.

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Football:Neymar’s Fate To Be Known This Week After Marseille Red Card - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 15, 2020
Neymar’s punishment for being one of five players sent off following a brawl at the end of Paris Saint-Germain’s defeat to Marseille will be revealed on Wednesday, the French Football League (LFP) said Monday.
The world’s most expensive footballer was shown the red card in stoppage time of the 1-0 loss at the Parc des Princes alongside teammates Layvin Kurzawa and Leandro Paredes, as well as Marseille’s Dario Benedetto and Jordan Amavi.
Neymar insisted Alvaro Gonzalez called him a “monkey” in a series of furious tweets late on Sunday after he was dismissed for slapping the Marseille defender on the back of the head.

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Football:Nigerian Coach Ndubuisi Egbo Wins Albanian Title, Qualifies Tirana For Champions League - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 21, 2020
Coach Ndubuisi’s club will also be featuring in the UEFA Champions League for next term following their 25th league title.
The 46-year-old who had 12 appearances for the Super Eagles – between 1999 and 2002 when he was a goalkeeper for KF Tirana –  is also believed to be the first African to achieve that feat.
Tirana fans may have more reasons to celebrate if the team win the domestic cup on August 2. Photo: Tirana website
KF Tirana who are celebrating their 100th anniversary this month, can also claim a domestic double on August 2, 2020 when they face Teuta Durres in the Domestic Cup final.
The club’s fans are already in celebration following the decade-long wait for the domestic title.
Coach Ndubuisi was promoted as the Head Coach of the Albanian side in 2019 and, has remarkably, led the club to a league triumph in his first season in charge.


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Football:Obafemi Martins Returns To Shanghai Shenhua - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 17, 2020
Veteran striker Obafemi Martins has embarked on a second spell at Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua after he agreed a year’s deal.
Martins, 35, has impressed in training with the club, who had released him in 2018 after he suffered a long-term injury.
The striker netted 19 goals in 40 appearances for the Shanghai club between 2016 and 2018.
Odion Ighalo was the direct replacement for ‘Oba-goal’ then, but he is currently on loan at Manchester United till January 2021.
Martins is one of Nigeria’s most nomadic players having played in Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain, USA and England.


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Football:Premier League Urges Government To Stick To Oct. 1 Date For Fans Return - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 18, 2020
The Premier League has urged the British government to stay committed to its plans for a controlled return of fans into stadiums from Oct. 1. The government last week restricted pilot events to 1,000 spectators after a spike in COVID-19 cases, and said it would review the date for when fans could enter stadiums.

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Forces Must Leave Sudan Capital For Truce To Hold - ARMY - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 5, 2023
There has been an escalation of violence in Khartoum and in the western Darfur region since the negotiations in Saudi Arabia broke down last week.
Both the army and the rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, accused each other of violating the truce, but negotiators have remained in Jeddah.
Agar added that the discussions there represented the best hope of ending the fighting.
Sudanese Military leader, General, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan recently appointed Agar, a former rebel leader, to replace his former deputy General, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, who heads the RSF.
Most of the troops in Khartoum are RSF fighters, and the army appears to have resumed its attempts to blast them out of the positions they’re holding.


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Foreign Debt: FG. To Borrow $600m From W’bank To Tackle Environmental Crisis In North - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 3, 2022
National Programme Coordinator of Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project Salisu Dahiru made this known at a consultative engagement with Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes states level stakeholders in Abuja.
Dahiru, who was represented by the Agro-Climatic’s, Water Resources Specialist, Ayuba Anda Yalaks, noted that the project is to address the issue and challenges of environmental degradation in terms of deforestation, erosion, store water management, meeting the needs of the people in terms of food production.
He explained that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum had to meeting virtually and chaired by the Northern Governors’ Forum, to ensure that they go on with the project as requested.
The National Programme Coordinator however noted that the South is also affected in terms of gully erosion and flooding, but that project was to address the issue of gully erosion and land degradation.
ON his part, Country Manager, HarvestPlus Nigeria, Yusuf Dollah said the meeting was to enable stakeholders share ideas on how to promote climate tolerant crops.

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Foreign Debt: Reps Suspend Buhari’s $22.79bn Consideration Indefinitely - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 12, 2020
The House of Representatives has suspended the consideration of the 22.79 billion dollars  foreign loan request by the President Muhammadu Buhari.
The House had listed the report byits Committee on Aids, Loans and Debt Management on the 2016–2018 FederalGovernment External Borrowing Rolling Plan as the last item for consideration onthe order paper for Wednesday’s proceeding.
The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila,however, asked that the consideration be suspended indefinitely. He had onTuesday announced that the loan would be considered on Wednesday.
He had made this known in reactionto a member of the House, Henry Nwawuba, who presented a petition by a group ofSouth-East elite, against the consideration and approval of the external loan.
The Senate last week approved theforeign loan but not without protests from the opposition Senators led by theMinority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe.


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Foreign/ Domestic: Nigeria’s Debt Hits N38.005trn – DMO - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 15, 2021
DMO explained that there is increase of  2.54 trillion naira when compared to the corresponding figure of 35.465 trillion naira at the end of second quarter 2021 was accounted for  the 4 billion dollars Eurobonds issued by the government in September 2021.
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Zainab Ahmed has however, maintained that Nigeria does not have a debt problem. According to her, what the government needed to do was to increase its revenue generating capacity in order to boost revenue to about 50 percent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
A former Imo State Finance Commissioner Uche Uwaleke while commenting on Nigeria’s ballooning debt profile, explained that the crash in revenue generation always leads the Nigerian government to borrow.

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Foreign Exchange: Buhari Receives Manufacturers, Promises Access To Forex - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 30, 2021
President Buhari gave the assurance, in response to a request by the
leadership of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria MAN.
MAN had, during an advocacy visit to State House, Abuja, appealed to
the government to take steps to ensure that the real sector contributed
more to the Nigerian economy.
In a similar vein, the Nigerian Association Chamber of Commerce,
Industry, Mines and Agriculture NACCIMA, and some experts blamed
the rising volume of Nigeria’s trade deficit on the inability of the
government to enforce its policy on consumption of locally
manufactured goods.
President Buhari told the MAN executive that the relevant ministry
would revisit their concerns about the increase in excise duties on some
identified products and other tariff-related matters.

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Foreign Exchange: CBN Bans Currency Collateral For Naira Loans. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 9, 2024
This directive contained in a circular by Dr. Acting Director of the Banking Supervision Department, Adetona S. Adedeji, represents a significant shift in the CBN’s approach to loan collateralization.
According to the new regulation, banks can no longer accept deposits denominated in foreign currencies like USD, EUR, or GBP as security for loans issued in Naira.
This ban extends to most foreign currency-based financial instruments, excluding those specifically permitted by the CBN.
The CBN has outlined two specific exceptions to this new regulation: Nigerian government-issued Eurobonds can still be used as collateral for Naira loans. Guarantees provided by reputable foreign banks, including Standby Letters of Credit, will remain acceptable forms of collateral.
The directive provided a timeframe for banks to address existing loans secured by non-compliant collateral-foreign currency deposits other than Eurobonds or foreign bank guarantees.


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Foreign Exchange: Naira Depreciates Further To N614/$ At Parallel Market - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 28, 2022
The figure signifies a depreciation of N7 or 1.2 percent compared to
the N607 it traded last two weeks.
At the official market, the naira also depreciated by 0.21 percent to close
at N421/$ on Monday, according to information obtained from FMDQ
OTC Securities Exchange – a platform that oversees official foreign-
exchange trading.
Nigeria operates multiple exchange rate windows.
International organisations such as the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, IMF, have constantly advised the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN, to unify the official and parallel market exchange rates.
But Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, had said that despite advice
offered by IMF and the World Bank, developing economies such as
Nigeria had the liberty of adopting “homegrown solutions” to their
economic problems.
According to him, the managed floating exchange rate, which allows the
CBN to intervene in the market when there is a supply shock, would be
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Foreign Exchange: Nigerians Spend $39.66bn On Foreign Education, Medical Tourism – CBN Report - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 28, 2022
According to CBN’s Balance of Payments, Nigerian parents and
guardians paid about $28.65bn for their wards to study abroad during the
period under review.
The BoP report also revealed that Nigerians paid $11.01bn for
healthcare-related services in foreign countries.
The amount spent on these foreign services is almost equivalent to the
current value of the country’s foreign reserves which stood at $39.51bn
as of March 23, highlighting its high cost.
These statistics and their impacts were cited in a financial report released
last week titled, “A Simple and Factual Explanation of Nigeria’s
Exchange Rate Dynamics.”
According to the report, the high cost of these services has drastically
increased the demand for foreign exchange in the country, which has put
a strain on the value of the naira to the dollar.


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Foreign Graduates: NYSC Creates 11 Centres For Verification Of Results - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 10, 2019
The NationalYouth Service Corps, NYSC has created eleven centres for verification ofresults and other documents of foreign trained graduates.
The NYSCDirector, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi in a statement in Abujasaid the scheme devised new strategies of verifying the certificates and otherdocuments submitted for mobilisation with effect from 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream-2Service Year.
She notedthat the management of the scheme approved such verification centres across thesix geopolitical zones in the country, which include Lagos and Osun for SouthWest; Rivers and Edo for South-South and Enugu, and Abia for South East.

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Foreign Investments: Finance Minister Says Nigeria Attracted $14bn In 2019 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 18, 2019
The Minister of Finance,  Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed says foreign investments inflows into Nigeria scaled to 14 billion dollars in half year 2019, indicating improvement in investors’ confidence, She said Nigeria needed a lot of resources to actualize the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP and other development plans, which were at risk of being underfunded.
The Minister announced this while speaking on a panel tagged “Strengthening Domestic Revenue Mobilization” at the ongoing 2019 World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington DC, USA.
Zainab said the total value of capital imported into Nigeria increased from 12 billion dollars in the first half year of 2018 to about 14 billion dollars for the same period in 2019.
She noted that the infrastructure master plan needs about three trillion dollars over the next 30-years to sufficiently address our infrastructure deficit.

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Foreign Loans: Buhari Has Turned Nigeria Into Beggar Nation - Iyorchia Ayu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 29, 2021
The party, however, is assured of its readiness to rescue the nation if it receives the backing of citizens in 2023.
Ayu spoke during a chat with BBC Hausa monitored at the weekend.
He added that the party has organised a workshop for its newly elected officials, to keep them abreast of ways to confront insecurity in the country.

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Foreign Minister Hints Missing Journalist May Be Dead - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 11, 2019
Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Paramagamba Kabudi says that ajournalist who went missing in 2017 may have died.
He said that the state is dealing with all those who haveunfortunately died and disappeared in Rufiji, adding that it was very painfulfor someone who was doing his job to pass on.
The Committee to Protect Journalists which has beencampaigning for the government to launch a credible investigation into hiscase, says Gwanda was investigating cases of mysterious killings in hiscommunity in the months before his disappearance.
Gwanda’s wife, Anna Pinoni was one of the last people to seehim before he vanished. She says the last time she saw him was when he lefttheir farm in a white Land Cruiser with four men she did not recognise, theCommittee to Protect Journalists adds.
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Foreign Reserves Drop By $1.64bn In Five Weeks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 24, 2020
Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves have dropped by 1.64billion dollar from 38.34 billion dollars on January 15, 2020 to 36.69 billiondollars on February 20.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN announced that the reservesstood at 38.53 billion dollars on January 2, 2020.
According to the figures, the reserves dropped from 39.8billion dollars on November 11, 2019 to 39.24 billion dollars on December 13,after falling by 1.26 billion dollars from 41.76 billion dollars on October 2to 40.5 billion dollars as of the end of October.
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele has recently said Nigeria’soverdependence on crude oil for over 60 per cent of fiscal revenue and over 90per cent of forex inflows meant that shocks in the oil market were transmittedentirely to the economy via the forex markets as manufacturers and traders whorequired forex for input purchases were faced with dwindling supplies.
He added that average monthly inflows of forex into the CBNfell from over 3.4 billion dollars in June 2014 to a low of 1.4 billion dollarsin September 2016.

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Foreign Trade: Nigeria’s Food Import Bill Hits N7.8trn In 6 Years. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 11, 2023
The staggering sum, experts say, is a clear demonstration that the Nigerian government is yet to put the nation on the right path of eradicating hunger by 2030 as stipulated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, over 1.9 trillion naira worth of food imports business transactions were conducted in 2022 as against the 2 trillion naira expended on food importation in 2021.
In 2020, the country imported 1.2 trillion naira worth of agricultural products and imported over 959 billion naira food products in 2019. Nigeria also imported 857.6 billion naira and 886.8 billion naira worth of food products in 2018 and 2017 respectively.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s food import bill has been on the rise in recent years. In 2022, a total of 1.9 trillion naira worth of food products were imported into the country. The value of food imports in the second quarter of 2022 stood at 464.45 billion naira, showing an increase when compared to the value recorded in the previous quarter.
The high food import bill is a concern for Nigeria’s economy. The country has a large agricultural sector, and there have been efforts to boost local production to reduce the dependence on food imports. However, factors such as inadequate infrastructure, insecurity, and climate change have hindered progress in the sector.


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Foreign Trips: Buhari Yet To Match Obasanjo’s Record — Oshiomhole - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 1, 2019
The National Chairman of the ruling All ProgressivesCongress APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed as “incorrect” the notion thatPresident Muhammadu Buhari engages in frequent trips.
Oshiomhole, who fielded questions from journalistsin Abuja, said President Buhari was yet to match former President Olusegun Obasanjoregarding the number of foreign trips.
He picked holes in the arguments of the criticsciting a book that the late Gani Fawehinmi wrote where he calculated the numberof days Obasanjo spent in foreign lands during his eight-year tenure.
On the statement credited to the chairman of thePresidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption PACAC, Itse Sagay, sayingthat he had advised him to stop being combative, Oshiomhole said he would notreply the respected elder but rather consult him to clarify his position on theseries of allegations over the crisis in the party and Edo State.
It would be recalled that Sagay, who accusedOshiomhole of creating more problems, threatened to personally demand hisremoval as Party Chairman if the party is defeated in Edo state.

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Forensic Infrastructure:  Police, ICPC Partner On Analysis - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 8, 2019
TheInspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, says the police will support theIndependent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission ICPC inforensic analysis.
Adamusaid this in Abuja when members of the board of the ICPC led by its chairman,Bolaji Owasanoye paid him courtesy visit.
Hesaid the police had the capacity for forensic analysis and pledged to make theinfrastructure and services available to the commission at any time.
TheIGP assured the board members of the commitment of the police to collaboratewith the commission in the provision of needed personnel and other areas tosupport its operations.
Hesaid that corruption was one of the most dangerous crimes that when allowed toflourish, affects every sector of the country.Adamu said the ICPCmust be up and doing in collaboration with other agencies in the fight againstcorruption in the country.

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Forest Protection: Nigeria, 14 ECOWAS States To Benefit From $8m Project - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 9, 2019
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation announced that Nigeria and 14 other ECOWAS members are to benefit from an eight-million-dollar five-year forest protection project.
The world body said that three agencies, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sida, the organisation and ECOWAS had joined forces to protect West Africa’s forests to help safeguard the livelihoods of millions of people, depending on them.
The organisation named Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana and other ECOWAS states as the beneficiaries of the planned support programme.
It said the three institutions would carry out project, aimed at strengthening sustainable forest and land management.
They would also address trans-boundary forest threats to maximize the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities.

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Forex: CBN Summons Currency Dealers, Others On Development In Market - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 21, 2019
TheCentral Bank of Nigeria has summoned all authorised currency dealers for ameeting to discuss development in the foreign exchange market.
Theinvitation was contained in a circular released and signed by the bank’sDirector, Trade and Exchange, Ahmed Umar in Abuja on Friday.
Itexplained that the meeting would engage the participants on development so farin foreign exchange market  with a viewto proffer solutions or to chart a way forward.
Accordingto the circular, the meeting will be held at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos onThursday, July 4.
Apartfrom authorised currency dealers, the representatives of Nigeria CustomsService were also expected  at themeeting.
Otherparticipants are representatives of Standard Organisation of Nigeria and thoseof National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control


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Forex: FG To Raise $10BN For Increased Liquidity, Naira Stability - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2024
President Bola Tinubu made this known at the inauguration of the Public Wealth Management Conference organised by the Ministry of Finance Incorporated in Abuja.
The theme of the conference was, “Championing Nigeria’s Economic Prosperity.”
Represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu revealed plans by his administration to create millions of jobs by unlocking the value of Nigeria’s vast public assets.
This, according to him, is to optimise and double the country’s Gross Domestic Product GDP.
He stressed the need to identify, consolidate and maximise returns on government-owned assets worth trillions of Naira.
Tinubu, however, noted that decades of mismanagement and underutilisation have plagued the country’s assets, spread across Nigeria and outside its borders, leading to revenue losses that have hindered economic growth.

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Forex Intervention: CBN Injects $311.5m, Cny15m Into Retail SMIS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
October 5, 2019
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN hasmade an intervention of three hundred and eleven point five million dollar inthe retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales, SMIS and fifteen millionChinese Yuan in the spot and short-tenored forwards segment of the inter-bankforeign market.
The CBN’s Director, CorporateCommunications Department, Isaac Okorafor who confirmed the latest injection ina statement in Lagos, said that the dollar interventions were for customers inthe agricultural, airlines, petroleum products and raw materials and machinerysectors.
He said the yuan component was forpayment of renminbi denominated letters of credit for agriculture as well asraw materials.
Okorafor further said that themarket continue to enjoy stability, owing to the regular interventions by theCBN, which according to him had also guaranteed a stable exchange rate for thenaira.
According to him, one-dollarexchange for three hundred and fifty seven naira at the Bureau de Change, BDCsegment of the foreign exchange market, while one Chinese Yuan exchange atforty seven naira.

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Forfeiture: Diezani Loses Bid To Recover $40m Jewellery From Fed Govt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 26, 2021
The appellate court held that there was no substance in Alison-Madueke’s bid to overturn the lower court’s order.
It affirmed the 2019 judgment of Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court which forfeited the jewellery following an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The appellate court gave its judgment in an appeal filed by Alison-Madueke
On July 5, 2019, the EFCC secured an order of the high court temporarily forfeiting the expensive items to the Federal Government.
According to the schedule attached to the application, the jewellery, categorised into 33 sets, include “419 expensive bangles; 315 expensive rings; 304 expensive earrings; 267 expensive necklaces; 189 expensive wristwatches; 174 expensive necklaces and earrings; 78 expensive bracelets; 77 expensive brooches; and 74 expensive pendants.”

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Forfeiture Of Fund: Court Orders For Oral Evidence In Final Suit Against Patience Jonathan - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 28, 2019
AFederal High Court Lagos, Thursday, called for oral evidences in a suit by theEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, seeking final forfeiture of about8.4 million dollars, and 7.4 billion naira found in some accounts linked toformer first Lady, Patience Jonathan.
JusticeMojisola Olatoregun in a judgment on the motion for final forfeiture of thesums, held that there were conflicting affidavit evidences, which can be bestresolved if respective parties are called upon to give oral evidence.
TheEFCC had secured an interim order for forefeture of the sums on April 20, 2018,before Olatoregun, following a motion exparte.
Itjoined as respondents: Patience Jonathan, Globus Integrated Services Ltd,Finchley Top Homes Ltd., Am-Pm Global Network Ltd, Pagmat Oil and Gas Ltd andMagel Resort Ltd and Esther Oba.
OnOctober 29, 2018, EFCC counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, had moved hismotion for final forfeiture of the sums, urging that same be finally forfeitedto the Federal Government.

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Forgery: Civil Defence Busts Borno 7-Man Syndicate - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
August 26, 2019
The Borno State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has arrested seven people, who specialised in forging fake school certificates and security documents.
The Commandant, Abdullahi Ibrahim, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri on Monday.
He said that the suspects were arrested on August 21, at the Post Office area of Maiduguri, by the Anti-fraud unit of the Command.
Ibrahim explained that the suspects specialised in forging fake Diploma and Degree statement of results, as well as National Youth Service Corps certificates.
The Commandant said the suspects also specialised in forging fake admission letters and identification cards of the University of Maiduguri and the Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri.
Ibrahim, who did not give the names of the suspects, said that they comprised of two non-academic staff of the university and five collaborators.
pects also specialised in forging fake admission letters and identification cards of the University of Maiduguri and the Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri.
Ibrahim, who did not give the names of the suspects, said that they comprised of two non-academic staff of the university and five collaborators.


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Form CF001: Buhari Opposes Admission Of Own Bio-Data At Tribunal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
July 9, 2019
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has objected to the admission of his Form CF001, whichcontained his personal data submitted to the Independent National ElectoralCommission INEC for the February 23rd presidential election.
Hisobjection was announced at the resumed hearing of the petition filed by thePeoples Democratic Party, PDP and its presidential candidate Alhaji AtikuAbubakar.
Buhari’slead counsel, Chief Wale Olanipekun SAN, while objecting to the admission ofthe form, said his reasons would be made public at the address stage.
Atikuand his party had tendered the form with a view to establishing their petitionagainst Buhari on his qualification for the last presidential election.
Atikualso tendered the final result of the election as signed by the INEC chairman,Yakubu Mahmood.


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Former CJN: NJC Confirms Onnoghen’s Voluntary Retirement - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 10, 2019
TheNational Judicial Council, NJC on Monday confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’sacceptance of voluntary retirement of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria,Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Thecouncil’s Director of Information, Soji Oye, disclosed this in a statement.
Thepresident had suspended Onnoghen on allegation of complexities surrounding hisfalse and non- asset declarations while the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCTconvicted him of the offences.
JusticeTanko Muhammad was eventually appointed as Acting CJN to fill in the gapcreated.


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Former Falconets Captain, Chiejine, Is Dead - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 22, 2019
IfeanyiChiejine, former captain of Nigeria’s Under 20 female football team, Falconetsis dead.
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF announced this on its twitter handle @thenff on Thursday in Abuja.
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Chiejinecaptained the first set of the U-19 national team, which is now known as U-20,to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2002 and went on to play for the senior team,Super Falcons.
Chiejineplayed for Nigeria Women Football League clubs like Pelican Stars, Flying BabesFC, Confluence Queens and FCT Queens.
Shewas also part of the successful Bayelsa Queens side that won the league back toback in 2006 and 2007 alongside Evelyn Nwabuoku and Onome Ebi, among others.
Sherepresented Nigeria at three FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1999, 2003 and 2007 andwas the youngest player at the 1999 FIFA Women’ World Cup in the U.S.


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Former Mamelodi Sundowns Player Shot Dead In South Africa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 16, 2019
Former South African football playerMarc Batchelor was shot dead outside his home in Johannesburg on Monday, localmedia reported on Tuesday.
The 49-year-old, who played forSouth African teams Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns, wasshot in his car.
Another person in the vehicle wasunharmed in the incident.
A police spokesman said he was attacked by twomen who were driving a motorbike,as he was about to drive into his premises.The suspects shot several times at him.
He added that the police are stillinvestigating what the motive for the attack was.


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Former Nigerian Leader Preaches Unity To Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 26, 2023
His Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, made this known in a statement issued after a reception held at New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA on Thursday.
The statement added the Obasanjo, asserted that while Nigerians tend to relate as friends and display unity abroad, they often exhibit enmity and discord once they return to their homeland.
The former President, who acknowledged the remarkable achievements of Nigerians in various fields while residing abroad, emphasized their role in bringing pride to the nation.
Obasanjo also called on diaspora Nigerians to replicate this sense of togetherness upon their return home.


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Former President: Kenya Declares National Mourning After Daniel Arap Moi's Death - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 4, 2020
Kenya has declared anunlimited period of national mourning, following the death of the country’slongest serving ruler, Daniel arap Moi.
His death was announced ina statement issued on Tuesday morning by President Uhuru Kenyatta in aPresidential proclamation.
According to the statement,the former President died at the Nairobi Hospital in the presence of hisfamily. It added that the country will observe a period of national mourningfrom Tuesday until the day of his funeral, which has not been set.
It also said Moi will beaccorded a State funeral, with all the appropriate civilian and full militaryhonours being observed.
President Kenyatta alsoordered that flags be flown at half-mast ‘as an expression of public sorrow’from Tuesday until sunset on the day of Moi’s burial.

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Forthcoming Elections: INEC Warns Against Use Of Temporary Voter Cards - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
February 12, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will not entertain the use of temporary voter cards during the upcoming general elections.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross River, Frankland Briyai, said this at a workshop on Election Risk Management.
The workshop was organised by the commission for stakeholders and electoral officials from the 18 local government areas in Cross River as part of preparations for the general elections.
Briyai, who spoke through the Electoral Officer of Bekwarra, Asuquo Affiah, said that the commission would only recognise the Permanent Voter Cards during the polls.
He added that the extension given by the commission for collection of PVCs ended on Monday.
He urged all stakeholders to join hands with INEC in ensuring that the electoral process was free, fair and credible.

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Forty Fighters Killed In Drone Strikes In Niger Republic - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2022
The military in a statement called the strikes “new tactical success” for France’s counterterrorism efforts in Africa’s Sahel region, named Operation Barkhane.
Barkhane said intelligence obtained from Niger’s republic units in contact with the column confirmed that the motorcycles belonged to an armed terrorist group moving between Burkina Faso and Niger republic.
Niger’s republic government also issued a statement saying the fighters were killed after an attack earlier this week killed eight security forces in southwestern of the country.
The drone strikes is coming as France re-organises its military efforts in the broader Sahel region, the huge area south of the Sahara Desert where it was once a colonial power and still maintains strong economic ties.
Niger republic has become a more reliable ally after military coups overthrew the democratically elected presidents of neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso over the last two years. France’s Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Twitter said the military commitment in the Sahel-Sahara area to fight terrorism, along African partners is total.


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Framework: Institute Tasks Federal, States Govts. To Implement Urban Development Law - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 23, 2021
The institute also called on government to be alive to its responsibility while specialized town planners should make available attained knowledge in both art and science to develop into a workable blue print.
President of the institute Olutoyin Ayinde, who made the appeal in Abuja, while noted that the framework at the federal level has not been implemented, and stressed that it will require every state to domesticate the legislation towards enhancing physical planning in the country.
He however, decried that Nigerians were adequately informed on issues relating town, urban, or regional planning due to the fact that the federal government has not paid proper attention to it. Ayinde also expressed worries that the desperate need for lands has triggered inter-communal clashes between communities in the country.
On his part, the Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development Idris Salako said the government cherished the input and support of the professional bodies adding that collaborative efforts were required to attain a livable, organised and sustainable physical environment in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda of the government.


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France 2019: Eight Home-Based Players For Falcons Camp - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 14, 2019
Super Falcons Coach Thomas Dennerby has included eight home-based players in his twenty seven-man list for the final camp in Austria ahead of the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France, scheduled for June 7th to July 7th.
Nigeria’s final list of twenty three players for the Women’s World Cup will emerge from this group of twenty seven, with four players to be excluded from the final squad towards the end of the two-week camping in Austria.
The Nigeria Football Federation’s Head of Women Football, Ruth David said that the African champions would depart from Abuja for Austria on May 20th for Austria, the same facility where the Super Eagles had their final camping before the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The Super Falcons will depart from Austria on June 4th for France, where they will open their World Cup campaign against Norway on June 8th.


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France 2019: Oshoala, Ihezuo To Complete Super Falcons’ Squad - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 27, 2019
SuperFalcons’ strikers Asisat Oshoala and Chinwendu Ihezuo have arrived the SuperFalcons’ Avita Resort camp in Austria, completing the final squad of 23players.
Theteam’s Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby, had earlier picked 21 players.
AdemolaOlajire, the Director of Communications at Nigeria Football Federation,NFF,said in a statement on Sunday the two players were left out to join the teamlater.
Theteam was preparing for the 8th FIFA World Cup in France.
Olajiresaid the nine–times African champions went on an endurance drill in the woodsof Bad Tatzmannsdorf on Saturday.
Accordingto him, it was to ensure stamina building for the players by the technical crewahead of the World Cup.
Heexplained that 21 players, including forward and captain Desire Oparanozie anddefenders Onome Ebi and Osinachi Ohale, took part in the drills.


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France 2019: Super Falcons Aims At Three Points Against Norway - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 7, 2019
Nigeria’s women national Super Falcons says they arein the mood and spirit to take all three points off the Grasshoppers of Norwayin their first match of the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Reims onSaturday.
Super Falcons is one of only seven teams to havemade it to every edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup finals since theinaugural competition in 1991. The Falcons have made it out of the group stageonly once previously, and that was 20 years ago.
A 2-1 defeat of North Korea and 2-0 win overDenmark, on either side of a 7-1 win by Team USA, navigated the Africanchampions to the quarter finals, where they came back from three goals down todraw with Brazil before losing by the golden goal rule in extra time.
Super Falcons Head Coach Thomas Dennerby is askinghis girls to take it one match at a time and develop a positive mindset aboutthe finals, adding that the Nigeria women’s team is focused on reaching the2019 Women’s World Cup Round of 16 in France.


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France 2019: Super Falcons, France Tickets Sold Out - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 11, 2019
TheGroup A match ticket for the clash between African champions,
SuperFalcons of Nigeria and hosts, France at the 2019 FIFA women’s
WorldCup has been sold out.
Theworld football ruling body FIFA, announced this through their
officialtwitter handle.
Nigeriawill face France in their last group A match on Monday, June 17
atthe Roazhon Park, Rennes
Thesale of the match tickets for the competition was declared open by
theWorld football governing body last week.
TheSuper Falcons will begin their campaign at the World Cup against
Norwayon Saturday, June 8 at the Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims.
Theywill trade tackles with Korea Republic in their second at the Stade
desAlpes, Grenoble, on Wednesday, June 1 2.
Meanwhile,the official poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France
2019™had been unveiled in Paris to coincide with International
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France 2019: Super Falcons’ Head Coach Invites 30 Home-Based Girls To Camp - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 19, 2019
The Head Coach of theSuper Falcons Thomas Dennerby has called to camp 30 home-based professionalsfor a preliminary camp of the team as preparations for this summer’s FIFAWomen’s World Cup finals enter a new gear. The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cupwould be the eighth edition.
The quadrennialinternational football championship contested by 24 teams from sixconfederations is expected to hold from June 7 to July 7 inFrance.
A statement by theNigeria Football Federation, NFF Director of Communications Ademola Olajire,said goalkeepers Tochukwu Oluehi, Chiamaka Nnadozie and Christy Ohiaeriaku allmade the list, as well as defenders Glory Ogbonna and Josephine Chukwunonyeamong others.
Olajire said that thenine–time African champions, who have been to tournaments in China and Cyprusas part of preparations for the big global fiesta in France would play sixmatches in all.
He said the team hasbeen scheduled to play two matches in Spain in the first week of April tofurther put themselves in shape for the finals.